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Table 1 Clinical and demographic features

From: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study evaluating brain volumes, RNFL, and cognitive functions in MS patients and healthy controls

 

MS (n = 66)

HC (n = 16)

p-value

Age, mean (SD)

43.4 (12)

46.8 (9)

0.32

Gender, n(%)

  

0.21

 Females

48 (72.7)

9 (56.3)

 

 Males

18 (27.3)

7 (43.7)

 

Education (years), median (range)

13 (5-21)

13 (8-19)

0.096

 Disease duration, mean; median (range)

10.8; 8.5 (0-34)

  

 EDSS, median (range)

2 (0-7.5)

  

 NBV, mean (SD)

1473.5 (81.9)

1519.6 (38.4)

0.006^

 NWV, mean (SD)

694 (39.9)

728.1 (19.1)

0.003^

 NGV, mean (SD)

777.7 (72)

791.5 (33.1)

0.14^

 p-NGV, mean (SD)

609.6 (52.1)

616.2 (28.7)

0.11^

 SDMT, mean (SD)

45.1 (12.3)

53.3 (8.4)

0.037*

 CVLT-II, mean (SD)

41.6 (10.3)

 

 BVMT-R, mean (SD)

47.6 (10.8)

 

 RNFL, mean (SD)

93.8 (10.7)

101.8 (9.9)

0.014

 TEMP-RNFL, mean (SD)

63.3 (11)

 

 PMB-RNFL, mean (SD)

49.6 (9.4)

 
  1. ^ - linear regression model adjusted for Age; *linear regression model adjusted for education
  2. MRI measures (NBV, NWV, NGV, p-NGV) are expressed in ml
  3. Cognitive measures (SDMT, CVLT-II, BVMT-R) are expressed in T score